10 Most Influential Things that Happened in a Bathroom

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5 – Jean Paul Marat’s Assassination,

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  • The French Revolution was filled with bloody assassinations but the most important one happened while the victim was taking a relaxing bath.
  • Marat was one of the most important journalistic voices in the revolution, his wirting had urged many to take up arms against those who didn’t support it. Ironic that he himself would find himself violently murdered by a member of the conservative Girondin group.
  • But why kill him in the bath? Well Marat suffered from a skin condition that lead to him spending most of his time bathing. Marat would have visitors talk to him while he was in the bath, which is where the assassin met with him. Marat’s death would make him a martyr for revolutionaries and influence the violent, bloody times ahead.

4 – The Murders of George Smith,

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  • George Smith would commit a series of bathtub murders that would lead to a revolution in forensic science and law enforcement.
  • George had a terrible habit of marrying wealthy, lonely women, spending all their money and then doing a runner. But sometimes that didn’t always work so he eventually drowned one of his victims, Bessie Mundy in a bathtub. Then two more women after that.
  • In 1915 George was finally put on trial but there was no evidence linking him to the drownings, so pathologist Dr. Bernard Spilsbury recreated the conditions needed to drown the women, showing the jury how easily he could have committed the crimes. George was found guilty and CSI:1915 was born.

3 – The Assassination of King Eglon,

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  • Whenever someone tries to say there’s nothing interesting in The Bible, just remind them of this tale about a man being assassinated on the crapper.
  • King Eglon of Moab was killed when Israelite Ehud went to deliver a tribute to the King who ruled over them at the time. Believing that God had called him to kill the king, Ehud stabbed Eglon while he was taking a dump, an act that would free the Israelites from Moab rule.
  • The most disturbing part about the tale though is that Eglon was about the same size as Jabba the Hutt so when Ehud stabbed him, the sword’s hilt got so stuck in the fat folds he couldn’t pull it back out.

2 – Eureka!

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  • One of the most famous moments of scientific discovery happened all because of bathtime.
  • Ancient Greek scholar Archimedes came to the revelation that you could measure the volume of an object by observing the movement of water when getting into a bath. Seeing the water rise in the bath….and then went running out on the streets naked yelling Eureka!
  • This led to a new way to measure volume of objects accurately leading to important principles we still use today. So next time you see a guy running naked through the streets yelling crazy shit, he probably just invented warp drive.

1 – Elvis’ Death,

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  • Finally we get to perhaps the most iconic thing to happen on the toilet since the invention of indoor plumbing.
  • One of the 20th century’s most iconic figures, ‘The King’ would meet his end on a throne of a different kind. Elvis death was a shock at the time, even with his weight issues in consideration the dent his passing left could only be compared in current time to David Bowie’s or Princess Diana’s.
  • The fact that he passed on the toilet would stick in people’s minds partly because of the perceived humiliation of how far the heartthrob had fallen and its ironic hilarity leading to it being parodied over the years.

 

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